PA Faculty Published Article

Adrian Banning, MMS, PA-C, PA Department assistant clinical professor and research coordinator, had a feature article published in the Journal of Physician Assistant Education in June 2019 titled "The Art of Memory: Benefits and Mechanisms of Drawing."

June 25

PA Faculty Article Published

Ellen Feld, MD, PA Department medical director and clinical professor, had an article published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal in May 2019 titled "Good News." Feld read her piece and can be heard on CMAJ Podcasts.

June 25

Senate Passes Bill Authorizing Full Practice Authority for Nurse Practitioners

The Pennsylvania Senate took an important step to benefit patients in Pennsylvania by passing legislation that would give full practice authority to Advanced Practice Registered Nurses-Certified Nurse Practitioners (APRN-CNPs).

Senate Bill 25, sponsored by Senator Camera Bartolotta (R-46), would modernize the Professional Nursing Law to permit qualified APRN-CNPs to practice independent of a physician after they fulfill a three-year, 3,600-hour collaboration agreement with a physician. Current law requires nurse practitioners to practice under a collaboration agreement at all times.

June 19

Careers In Behavioral Health Counseling Summer Institute

The Department of Counseling and Family Therapy will welcome another cohort of students for a week-long Summer Institute from July 8 - 12, 2019.

Students with an interest in the helping professions, such as counseling, social work, psychology, addictions treatment and psychiatry will take part in a variety of experiential-based learning opportunities designed by Drexel's Behavioral Health Counseling programs. During the five-day institute, students will broaden their understanding of mental health and addictions treatment services by participating in site visits to treatment agencies, interaction with a variety of guest speakers, engaging in interactive workshops and utilizing the College of Nursing and Health Professions' state-of-the-art counseling simulation lab where actors pose as clients allowing students to practice basic counseling skills.

June 19

Presentation at International Meeting

Kristine Mulhorn, PhD, MHSA, chair of the Health Administration Department, presented a poster in Barcelona at the 31st Meeting of REVES (Réseau Espérance de Vie en Santé). The paper is co-authored by Stephen Samendinger, PhD, an associate professor in the Health Sciences Department.

The organization (REVES) is translated to mean International Network on Health Expectancy and members are devoted to studying demographic patterns and overarching questions such as the compression of morbidity hypothesis (i.e., reducing the period of one’s life in which they suffer from chronic illness). Mulhorn and Samendinger examined the link between disability-related functioning and mortality using a specific set of functioning questions on the National Health Interview Survey. The results confirm the known increased mortality risk for those with different levels of functioning, but we also know that we have opened the possibility for more cross-national comparisons of functioning in the future.

The research contributes to the continued questions about what factors affect population mortality over time. The unique aspect of the analysis is that we used the questions about functioning that were developed to allow more cross-national comparison of functioning and disability (“Washington Group Questions”) and we hope this work will contribute to more comparative analyses of patterns of functioning across countries.

June 17

Faculty Book Chosen for Distinguished List

Fran Cornelius, PhD, an assistant dean for Teaching, Learning and Engagement, coordinator of Clinical Nursing Informatics Education and clinical professor, and long-time colleague,  Laurinda Harman, PhD, associate professor Emerita at Temple University's College of Public Health, co-authored Ethical Health Informatics: Challenges and Opportunities, 3rd Edition which was selected as a 2019 Doody Core Title in Medical Informatics. Each year, Doody Enterprises collaborates with a network of librarians and content experts to publish Doody’s Core Titles in the Health Sciences.

This list of the most distinguished titles is used by librarians worldwide to develop and update their collections with the titles deemed most essential in over 120 specialties across clinical medicine, nursing, allied health and basic sciences.

June 13

Culinary Arts and Food Science for Thesis Defense

Please join the Department of Culinary Arts and Food Science for Thesis Defense

• Monday, June 10
• 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.
• Bistro, 6th floor Academic Building
• 101 N. 33rd Street

"The potential impact of raw milk on the small intestine microbiome" by Rizalina Gadaingan.

"The process from ideation to commercialization of food products made from upcycled foods" by Sheetal Bahirat.

"Investigating the effects of intrinsic and extrinsic factors on dairy-based edible films to predict their applications" by Maharshi H. Trivedi.

Questions: jks333@drexel.edu.

June 7

Research Co-op Funding Awarded

Rose Ann DiMaria-Ghalili, PhD, RN, FASPEN, FAAN, FGSA, professor of nursing and assistant dean is the recipient of research co-op funding in the amount of $7,250 from the Office of the Provost and the Steinbright Career Development Center for the fall/winter cycle commencing September 23, 2019.

This funding allocates for a full-time research co-op position in support of the current project on Nutrition, Quality of Life and Enhanced Wound Healing.

June 6

Gerontological Society of America Fellow Announced

Rose Ann DiMaria-Ghalili, PhD, RN, FASPEN, FAAN, FGSA , professor of nursing and assistant dean was awarded fellow status through the health sciences section of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA).

The GSA, the world’s oldest and largest interdisciplinary organization devoted to research, education and practice in the field of aging, awards fellow status as an acknowledgment of outstanding and continuing work in the field of gerontology.

Congratulations Dr. DiMaria-Ghalili!

June 5

Special Issue of the Journal of Family Psychotherapy on Supervision

The Journal of Family Psychotherapy special issue entitled, "The State of Supervision" will be available on 6/3/19. The Journal of Family Psychotherapy is affiliated with the International Family Therapy Association.

Guest editors include Wendel Ray, PhD, a senior research fellow at the Mental Research Institute (MRI), founding director of the Don D. Jackson Archive of Systemic Literature, and professor at the University of Louisiana at Monroe and David Hale, PhD, an assistant professor and program director for the MFT programs at the University of Louisiana at Monroe.

Christian Jordal, PhD, associate clinical professor and interim Counseling and Family Therapy department chair, is the current editor.

June 5

Mixed-reality Simulation Training Grant Award

The department of Counseling and Family Therapy, was recently awarded a training grant, from the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy to pilot the use of mixed-reality simulation in the Master of Family Therapy degree program.

The MFT program at Drexel University has embedded simulation in its curriculum, including formative and summative evaluations for the better part of a decade. There is only a handful of MFT programs across North America who currently have access to simulation technology.

The Drexel CICSP is instrumental in helping the MFT program at Drexel University remain at the forefront of our field.

June 4

PA Board Review Book Published

Julie Kinzel, MEd, PA-C, assistant clinical professor and interim PA department chair, and Patrick Auth, PhD, MS, PA-C, newly retired clinical professor, department chair and program director, are editors for the 5th Edition of PA Review for the PANCE which is now in print and available.

Many of the PA faculty were contributing editors for the book. The chapter editors and Drexel PA faculty include: Daniela Livingston, MD, Ryan Clancy, MSHS, Rosalie Coppola, MHS, Ellen Feld, MD, Juanita Gardner, MPH, Ann Madden, MHS, Cathy Nowak, MS, Allison Rusgo, MPH, Megan Schneider, MMS, MSPH, Diana Smith, MHS, Charles Stream, MPH, and question contributors Clare Pisoni, MPAS, and Justin Wolfe, MHS.

June 3